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awareness about the questionnaire
To identify the challenges this section covered the following aspects:
• The lack of knowledge about sustainability principles
• The comparison between performance and the rapid benefit of the building.
• The lack of professionals and skilled workers.
• The lack of education in the public sector and the academic institutions.
• Absents of recycling and reused principles.
When the results are classified and then it analysed according to the main aspects which are the
professional background and experiences, the current practices according to building efficiency,
design integration and sustainability awareness of staff and public. The challenges analysed in
term of building performance and lifestyle .Once these analysis complete, obstacles becomes
very clear and increase the level of ability to achieve solutions.
4. Results and Discussion
As mentioned before, 21 responses considered which represents 52% of total number survey’s
distribution. Numbers of respondents are not satisfying but the percentage provide outline for
the main purpose of the study.
4.1 Participant profile:
The result from this section including the number of male and female, as shown in Figure 1 that
the 86% of the participants from male while the rest from female. It’s very clear that the sector of
construction running by the male decisions.
Figure 1 shows the percentage of male and female of the participant profile and shows the majority
of experiences location
Most of participants are architects 62% while the less one is the health and safety environment
which presents 4% from the total as shown in Figure 2 Its absolutely clear that the professionals
who support the environmental issues are very limited in spite of the architects have big part of
the responsibility to achieved sustainability in design phase but it is vitally important to linked
and integrated between all the staff of the construction projects.
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